The Phillies-Nationals game is in the second inning at midnight. This is after a 4 and a half hour rain delay. Does anyone know what the latest a east coast game has ended at? This one looks like it might last till 3 or maybe later if there are extras like wed. night. Im sure there will be lots of nats fans left at the end of this one.

RadfordVA

09-29-2006, 12:35 AM

Here is a shocker. The game is now almost in the 5th. Only four hits and the only run came on a Ryan Church solo shot. Must be an agreement between the players to swing for home runs as to not have any long innings. I guarantee the Nats would prefer getting home quickly as to actually winning. Gotta be a kangaroo court fine for any pitcher that walks anybody.

Also, is it common for players to have an agreement like that when a game has lasted as long as that one has or when there is such a blowout? I wouldn't be surprised by it, and we know that coaches put in subs when there are large leads, but I just haven't heard that often of an agreement to swing for the fences...I have a feeling I am taking that one too literally and if so, sorry bout that one.

TOBTTReds

09-29-2006, 01:20 AM

but I just haven't heard that often of an agreement to swing for the fences...I have a feeling I am taking that one too literally and if so, sorry bout that one.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Nats were thinking that. The Phils want to win this one in the worst way. I'm actually shocked that the Phils are losing now. I figure this is a game the Nats HATE to play. But as an NFL coach once said, "You play to win the game." So maybe they are doing that.

redsmetz

09-29-2006, 05:38 AM

The Phillies-Nationals game is in the second inning at midnight. This is after a 4 and a half hour rain delay. Does anyone know what the latest a east coast game has ended at? This one looks like it might last till 3 or maybe later if there are extras like wed. night. Im sure there will be lots of nats fans left at the end of this one.

September 11, 1974:

The Mets lost 4-3 to the Cardinals during a "long-distance" marathon night game on September 11th. After seven hours and twenty-five innings, the outing became the longest game to a decision in Major League history. In the end, New York had batted one-hundred three times and St. Louis was not far behind with ninety-nine plate appearances. A record one-hundred seventy-five official at-bats were recorded, with a Major League record of forty-five runners left stranded. Despite the historical moment, only a thousand fans were on hand when it finally ended at 3:13 a.m.

One of the Cardinals players was quoted as saying he'd need a note from his teammates because there was no way his wife would believe he was playing a game until three in the morning.

Reverend Doo-Rag

09-29-2006, 07:01 AM

Folkers 2 3 0 0 1 2 0

"Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen...."

--Jerry Coleman

RedFanAlways1966

09-29-2006, 07:56 AM

Fan-friendliness? Who cares about school-aged kids that were brought to that game by their parents? Who cares about working-Joes and working-Janes who have to get up at 6:00 am to get ready for their normal jobs?

Make a buck & get the game over with no matter what! Screw the fans. :angry:

redsmetz

09-29-2006, 08:32 AM

Fan-friendliness? Who cares about school-aged kids that were brought to that game by their parents? Who cares about working-Joes and working-Janes who have to get up at 6:00 am to get ready for their normal jobs?

Make a buck & get the game over with no matter what! Screw the fans. :angry:

I think the two teams were looking at the fact that this was the Phillies last trip into DC and that the team would very likely have meaning for the
post-season, therefore, get the game instead of having to come back to DC to play it out. Had this been earlier in the year, they would have called it and rescheduled.

RedFanAlways1966

09-29-2006, 08:38 AM

I think the two teams were looking at the fact that this was the Phillies last trip into DC and that the team would very likely have meaning for the
post-season, therefore, get the game instead of having to come back to DC to play it out. Had this been earlier in the year, they would have called it and rescheduled.

You are right and I understand that, metz. I hope the Nats refund money to any fan who asks due to the circumstance. It would be the right thing to do.. and they may well do that (I hope!).

AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS DELAY
0:45  Boysen Park, Anaheim, California - 4/26/1968  High School - Santa Ana High School Saints at Anaheim High School Colonists - top 20th - called off at 1:30 AM because automated sprinklers which had come on at 12:45 AM could not be turned off.
0:17  Centennial Field, Burlington, Vermont  8/23/1984  Albany-Colonie Athletics at Vermont Reds - bottom 17th - called off at 1:06 AM because
automated sprinklers which had come on at 12:49 AM could not be turned off.

I remember that game. It was a Saturday Game of the Week for NBC. I remember telling my dad that they had a delay of the Reds game and guess what it was for.

And what in the world is a rhubarb delay?

A fight, I believe.

redsupport

09-29-2006, 11:42 AM

Danny Godby of Cards, a major Reds draft pick lost to Cardinals, how doleful!

Roy Tucker

09-29-2006, 12:39 PM

I remember the bees game on the NBC Game of the Week as well Chip.

I was at the Reds-Expos Opening Day in 1985 with the snow delays. It was delayed twice because it wasn't just a little flurry, it was like the leading edge of a blizzard. We're talking serious snow.

It started to snow again in the 8th or 9th and for one of the very few times in my life, I left a game early. I was totally frozen. I think it took me a week to finally warm up.

Chip R

09-29-2006, 12:42 PM

I was at the Reds-Expos Opening Day in 1985 with the snow delays. It was delayed twice because it wasn't just a little flurry, it was like the leading edge of a blizzard. We're talking serious snow.

It started to snow again in the 8th or 9th and for one of the very few times in my life, I left a game early. I was totally frozen. I think it took me a week to finally warm up.

Sounds like Opening Day this year. I think the only other time I left a game early other than Opening Day of this year was about 5 years ago when my girlfriend got hit on the shin with a foul ball. She was going to tough it out but after an inning or so she was in such obvious pain we left.